Yeah that claim seems fairly unsubstantiated by the rest of the article. It’s probably bullshit.

Please don’t blame the people who were forced to implement this. There are engineers to blame behind all shitty tech in the world. They’re just trying to work a job. There aren’t exactly a lot of jobs in the tech industry where you don’t work for some of the evilest motherfuckers alive building unimaginably evil stuff. I’m all for directing as much hate, vitriol, credible threats of violence, etc at the people on top, but let’s leave the poor sap who they forced to do their dirty work alone.

Wow you’re just posting dumb takes all over this thread huh

I seem to recall some kind of social movement about law enforcement continuing to abuse their power somewhat recently, did you happen to notice that? I also recall approximately zero meaningful changes coming from it in most places.

This is a guide for local law enforcement. Also spoilers: federal laws aren’t all good and just, and extra spoilers for people who really haven’t been paying attention: the FBI sometimes goes after people who haven’t committed crimes but did stuff the FBI didn’t like.

I believe once upon a time, back when Signal was called TextSecure, it actually supported this. I don’t remember how it knew the remote party was on TextSecure, I think it may have just let you send anyone encrypted messages, regardless of whether they could read them but I could be wrong. It’s been a long time.